Get rid of stale Twitter users that have stopped tweeting

Posted: January 19th, 2010 | Author: Chris Norton | Filed under: Twitter Apps, Twitter Tool | Tags: , , | 7 Comments »

Here is a Twitter tool which can be a little slow to use but is quite a good idea. As Twitter has grown, so has the amount of people we follow and it can become time consuming reading everything. Sometimes it’s difficult to decide who to keep and who to ditch to keep your account fresh.

The site explains:

After logging in (with your Twitter account), enter the number of days in the past you want to check. If you enter 30, then anyone who hasn’t updated their Twitter status (tweeted) in the past 30 days will be shown on a list.

Now some relationships may be offline as well as online, so you can white list your friends, so you don’t ditch them each time you use this. This really is quite an interesting tool because you get to see people and when they last updated their status, I actually found it pretty useful – so I would recommend you give it a try just for the novelty factor.

What do you think of this? How could it be made better?

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7 Comments on “Get rid of stale Twitter users that have stopped tweeting”

  1. 1 Tweets that mention Get rid of stale Twitter users that have stopped tweeting | Tweasier - The Twitter tool blog that makes life easier -- Topsy.com said at 2:51 pm on January 19th, 2010:

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Tweasier, Laresa McIntyre. Laresa McIntyre said: Just used it — good tool. | RT @tweasier: Tweasier Blog: Get rid of stale Twitter users that have stopped tweeting http://bit.ly/7dwdZY [...]

  2. 2 Therese said at 4:32 pm on January 19th, 2010:

    Interesting and very much needed for many of us, who at the very beginning started following whomever crossed our path. I will try it for sure.

  3. 3 uberVU - social comments said at 11:01 pm on January 19th, 2010:

    Social comments and analytics for this post…

    This post was mentioned on Twitter by tweasier: Tweasier Blog: Get rid of stale Twitter users that have stopped tweeting http://bit.ly/7dwdZY…

  4. 4 Steve said at 5:34 pm on January 22nd, 2010:

    I don’t really get the need for this. If these people aren’t tweeting any more, they don’t cost you any time in keeping up with your Twitter feed.

  5. 5 anonymous said at 7:18 pm on January 22nd, 2010:

    How will deleting users that haven’t tweeted in a month make it easier to keep up with the firehose? If they aren’t posting, deleting them won’t reduce the flood.

  6. 6 Twitter spring cleaning with the top 5 Twitter friend cleansing tools | Tweasier - The Twitter tool blog that makes life easier said at 2:20 pm on February 26th, 2010:

    [...] unTweeps.com, we have covered this one on the blog before. Here is a useful Twitter tool which can be a little [...]

  7. 7 James Pearson said at 9:41 am on August 2nd, 2010:

    I think it means getting rid of the people you followed originally because they seemed interesting, or because you wanted their follow back. If you’re following about 200 people, but don’t have time to check each one individually, this is a great time saver.

    You don’t want to be following loads more people than you follow, so if their dormant, get rid!

    Chris – is there a tool which tells me which of my followers (who I’m following back) have unfollowed me, so I can dump them too please?

    Clearly you can see from this I’m a shallow social media slut ;-)

    Thanks

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